Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks behind a barricade of sugar barrels and sandbags (Boxer Rebellion). Together they translated from medieval Latin the first work ever written on mining. In England, she brought up two sons in a home which became a rendezvous for U. S. citizens. And a few years ago she was content that her husband should become perhaps the busiest man in Washington. The lives of few U. S. white-haired ladies would be better reading for Girl Scouts than that of the onetime Lou Henry...
Norwegians have stomached for almost ten years a form of national prohibition which never at any time prohibited beverages with an alcoholic content less than...
...naval protection. One city was so active in its demands that the Secretary dug up, almost literally, one of the old monitors, leaky and water-logged, and had it towed to the harbor in question. Here the old tub remained, in momentary danger of sinking but the citizens were content...
Yale, too, said Mr. Roth, has seen and conquered its gastronomical crisis. The Eli eaters receive food in a common dining-hall; they have menus prepared by experts. All the cooking is attended to by feminine hands. Yale is now content, but two years ago it seethed with anti-lunch room sentiment. A dyspeptic group of agitators successfully raised their voices. The result is historic. The lunch rooms of New Haven stand empty, deserted are the purveyors of hot frankforts...
...Yale as topping Dartmouth from her three-year throne, and was not conceded a chance against the Blue. But with an irresistible rush the Bears swept the astonished Blue team off its feet, and sent Corn-sweet over with the winning touchdown four minutes after the opening whistle. Not content with the one score, the Providence eleven continued its aggressive tactics, and while unable to tally again, kept the Elis so much on the run as to render them unable to launch a decisive counter attack...